Little Haiti

Little Haiti is a neighborhood of Miami, Florida, United States. It is named for the island nation of Haiti, whose diaspora immigrated to the Little Haiti neighborhood during the 1970s and 1980s, and its name was coined by a newspaper that shortened Viter Juste's naming idea of "Little Port-au-Prince" to "Little Haiti". In 1986, it had a population of 3,591 people, growing to 29,760 in 2010. The neighborhood was a ghetto in the 1980s, being a run-down neighborhood with poorly-maintained buildings, low-wealth businesses, and shack-like homes, and crime was high in the area. In 1986, it was engaged in the Little Havana-Little Haiti violence, which saw the rival communities fight each other in gunfights and create sectarian violence in the Downtown area.